The first of Franz Schmidt's symphonies was released earlier this year to launch Vassily Sinaisky's cycle for Naxos. It revealed the foundations of Schmidt's brand of late Romanticism, which owed as much to Mendelssohn and Schumann as it did to Brahms and Bruckner; that same blend of influences permeates his characterful and sometimes surprising Second Symphony, composed between 1911 and 1913. It's a work requiring a huge orchestra - five clarinets, eight horns - yet the music is rarely bombastic. On the contrary, it's often transparently scored and, as Sinaisky's fine performance with the Malmö Symphony shows, the ideas, all stemming from the theme heard in the opening movement, are striking. The fill-up, the Fuga Solemnis for organ and brass, is a curiosity, too. Composed in 1937, it was reworked after the Anschluss and incorporated into a cantata called German Resurrection. Unsurprisingly, it has rarely been heard since.